A credit card can be a useful tool if you know how to use it, and rewards cards offer great perks to smart shoppers with financial savvy. This week, we're looking at five of the best, based on your nominations.

If you like to pay with plastic at your local department store or independent retailer, get ready: you may be subject to new credit card fees up to 4% of your transaction. A recent legal battle between credit card companies and a group of retailers has ended, and the result is that in order to offset high card…

On Friday, March 31st, news broke that credit card processor Global Payments suffered a massive security breach, in which intruders made off with thousands—possibly millions—of credit card numbers from hundreds of of card issuers worldwide. The story is still developing, and the hows and whys of how the card numbers…